The Diurnal Variation of the Wimp Detection Event Rates in Directional Experiments

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2009-12-16

arxiv.org/abs/0912.3121v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics

21 pages, 20 figures

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The recent WMAP data have confirmed that exotic dark matter together with the vacuum energy (cosmological constant) dominate in the flat Universe. Modern particle theories naturally provide viable cold dark matter candidates with masses in the GeV-TeV region. Supersymmetry provides the lightest supersymmetric particle (LSP), theories in extra dimensions supply the lightest Kaluza-Klein particle (LKP) etc. The nature of dark matter can only be unraveled only by its direct detection in the laboratory. All such candidates will be called WIMPs (Weakly Interacting Massive Particles). In any case the direct dark matter search, which amounts to detecting the recoiling nucleus, following its collision with WIMP, is central to particle physics and cosmology. In this work we briefly review the theoretical elements relevant to the direct dark matter detection experiments, paying particular attention to directional experiments. i.e experiments in which, not only the energy but the direction of the recoiling nucleus is observed. Since the direction of observation is fixed with respect the the earth, while the Earth is rotating around its axes, the directional experiment will sample different parts of the sky at different times during the day. So, since the event rates are different when looking at different parts of the sky, the observed signal in such experiments will exhibit very interesting and characteristic periodic diurnal variation.

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